Joseph Brodsky. Eternal Wanderer

Ask anyone even in our time not so much to the literature: who is Joseph Brodsky? Most will answer that he is from the dissidents, the Nobel laureate is a great Russian poet. But the poet in Russia is more than the poet. " He is the ruler of the thoughts of millions. And Brodsky was such, at least among like -minded people. After all, it is not for nothing that in the West, Russian -speaking citizens have long been believed that "Brodsky is really a kind of Pushkin of the twentieth century - their cultural tasks are so similar ... He covers the horizon. He cannot be circumvented. ... We must either submit and imitate, or reject him. So who is he, Joseph Brodsky, like an eternal Jew, wandering around the world: a brilliant poet or an engagement writer bloated to exorbitant sizes?